OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Government Information Quarterly is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Machine learning for predicting elections in Latin America based on social media engagement and polls	321
Artificial Intelligence for data-driven decision-making and governance in public affairs	256
The construction of self-sovereign identity: Extending the interpretive flexibility of technology towards institutions	173
Public perceptions of responsible AI in local government: A multi-country study using the theory of planned behaviour	162
The dynamics of AI capability and its influence on public value creation of AI within public administration	141
Digital government transformation as an organizational response to the COVID-19 pandemic	140
Artificial intelligence in public services: When and why citizens accept its usage	127
An ecosystem perspective on developing data collaboratives for addressing societal issues: The role of conveners	118
The role of municipal digital services in advancing rural resilience	111
To fee or not to fee: Requester attitudes toward freedom of information charges	102
Sustainability challenges of artificial intelligence and Citizens' regulatory preferences	101
Algorithmic profiling of the unemployed: A case study and a framework for understanding legitimization processes	92
Joining the open government partnership initiative: An empirical analysis of diffusion effects	89
An exploration of agile government in the public sector: A systematic literature review at macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis	82
Experimenting with collaboration in the Smart City: Legal and governance structures of Urban Living Labs	80
What determinants influence citizens' engagement with mobile government social media during emergencies? A net valence model	80
Editorial Board	75
Editorial Board	75
Editorial Board	73
Do citizens trust trustworthy artificial intelligence? Experimental evidence on the limits of ethical AI measures in government	71
Implementing challenges of artificial intelligence: Evidence from public manufacturing sector of an emerging economy	69
One tool to rule? – A field experimental longitudinal study on the costs and benefits of mobile device usage in public agencies	68
Analyzing digital government partnerships: An institutional logics perspective	68
Efficiency gains in public service delivery through information technology in municipalities	67
Institutional trustworthiness on public attitudes toward facial recognition technology: Evidence from U.S. policing	66

Transplanting good practices in Smart City development: A step-wise approach	65
Why coproduce? Citizens' perspectives on the costs and benefits of technology-enabled coproduction	64
Determinants of open government data continuance usage and value creation: A self-regulation framework analysis	61
Is a more transparent, connected, and engaged city a smarter investment? A study of the relationship between 311 systems and credit ratings in American cities	60
Virtual healthcare in the new normal: Indian healthcare consumers adoption of electronic government telemedicine service	58
Responsive E-government in China: A way of gaining public support	58
A theory of the infrastructure-level bureaucracy: Understanding the consequences of data-exchange for procedural justice, organizational decision-making, and data itself	56
Can AI communication tools increase legislative responsiveness and trust in democratic institutions?	55
Evaluating incident reporting in cybersecurity. From threat detection to policy learning	55
Different approaches to analyzing e-government adoption during the Covid-19 pandemic	55
Push them forward: Challenges in intergovernmental organizations' influence on rural broadband infrastructure expansion	54
A more secure framework for open government data sharing based on federated learning	53
Framework for interoperable service architecture development	53
Automation bias in public administration – an interdisciplinary perspective from law and psychology	51
Capricious opinions: A study of polarization of social media groups	51
Automated decision-making and good administration: Views from inside the government machinery	51
The role played by government communication on the level of public fear in social media: An investigation into the Covid-19 crisis in Italy	51
Managing the manosphere: The limits of responsibility for government social media adoption	50
Explainable AI for government: Does the type of explanation matter to the accuracy, fairness, and trustworthiness of an algorithmic decision as perceived by those who are affected?	50
Strategically constructed narratives on artificial intelligence: What stories are told in governmental artificial intelligence policies?	48
Organizing public sector AI adoption: Navigating between separation and integration	48
Determinants of cyber-incidents among small and medium US cities	46
Exploiting GPT for synthetic data generation: An empirical study	42
Open government data initiatives as agents of digital transformation in the public sector: Exploring the extent of use among early adopters	41
The evolution of theoretical contributions in digital government research: Insights from GIQ	41
Public value positions and design preferences toward AI-based chatbots in e-government. Evidence from a conjoint experiment with citizens and municipal front desk officers	40
Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks	40
Artificial intelligence-based public healthcare systems: G2G knowledge-based exchange to enhance the decision-making process	39
Editorial Board	38
Creating a workforce of fatigued cynics? A randomized controlled trial of implementing an algorithmic decision-making support tool	38
Towards a multicentric quality framework for legal information portals: An application to the DACH region	38
Editorial Board	37
Citizen-centricity in digital government: A theoretical and empirical typology	36
Recovery from AI government service failures: Is disclosing the identity of the AI agent an effective strategy?	36
An attention-based view of AI assimilation in public sector organizations: The case of Saudi Arabia	36
Understanding the antecedents of privacy fatigue in facial recognition-based m-Gov services: An empirical study from China	35
Digital inclusion in public services for vulnerable groups: A systematic review for research themes and goal-action framework from the lens of public service ecosystem theory	34
Digital transparency and citizen participation: Evidence from the online crowdsourcing platform of the City of Sacramento	34
AI adoption in public administration: Perspectives of public sector managers and public sector non-managerial employees	34
The impact of legacy systems on digital transformation in European public administration: Lesson learned from a multi case analysis	34
Measuring the effect of political alignment, platforms, and fake news consumption on voter concern for election processes	34
Adaptive governance amidst the war: Overcoming challenges and strengthening collaborative digital service provision in Ukraine	33
Persuasion, information technology, and the environmental citizen: An empirical study of the persuasion effectiveness of city applications	32
Does information technology–organizational resource interaction affect E-government performance? Moderating roles of environmental uncertainty	32
Editorial Board	32
Does trust in government moderate the perception towards deepfakes? Comparative perspectives from Asia on the risks of AI and misinformation for democracy	31
How to promote AI in the US federal government: Insights from policy process frameworks	31
Regulating artificial intelligence: Proposal for a global solution	31
Assessing and improving the National Interoperability Frameworks of European Union Member States: The case of Greece	30
Locating information systems in the freedom of information process	30

Public value creation through the use of open government data in Australian public sector: A quantitative study from employees' perspective	29
Hybrid images of generative AI: A Q methodological study of civil servants' perceptions	29
Unraveling the Nexus between National Culture and AI plan development and AI readiness: Insights from a configurational analysis	29
The strategic use of AI in the public sector: A public values analysis of national AI strategies	28
Digital ethics: Global trends and divergent paths	28
Editorial Board	26
Building a consensus: Harmonizing AI ethical guidelines and legal frameworks in Korea for enhanced governance	26
Factors in the adoption of open government initiatives in Spanish local governments	26
The effect of electronic program applications amidst the politics of administrative burden	25
Exploring open government data ecosystems across data, information, and business	25
A taxonomy for proactive public services	25
Local public services and the ethical deployment of artificial intelligence	24
Barriers to artificial intelligence adoption in smart cities: A systematic literature review and research agenda	24
Faced with digital bureaucrats: A scenario-based survey analysis of how clients perceive automation in street-level decision-making	23
Parallel learning loops in collaborative innovation: Insights from digital government	23
Editorial Board	23
Balancing privacy and trust: Social acceptance of video-based traffic sensors in smart city initiatives	23
Does the internet help governments contain the COVID-19 pandemic? Multi-country evidence from online human behaviour	22
Antecedents of the intention to adopt crowdsourcing for innovation in government: Findings from Belgium and the Netherlands	22
Under big brother's watchful eye: Cross-country attitudes toward facial recognition technology	22
Best practices in e-government communication: Lessons from the local Governments' use of official facebook pages	22
A holistic model for assessing organizational interoperability in public administration	22
Automated decision-making in public administration: Changing the decision space between public officials and citizens	21
Barriers to and mechanism for open government data use by the private sectors: A grounded theory approach	21
Rumor management during natural disasters: A “whole of government” coordination perspective	21
Stop trying to predict elections only with twitter – There are other data sources and technical issues to be improved	20
IT-embedded dynamic capabilities for public institutions coping with disinformation – The case of financial fake news	20
Moving beyond privacy and airspace safety: Guidelines for just drones in policing	20
Measuring the performances of politicians on social media and the correlation with major Latin American election results	20
The role of digital technologies in global climate negotiations	19
How information capacity shapes policy implementation: A comparison of administrative burdens in COVID-19 vaccination programs in the United States, Mexico, and the Netherlands	19
How emerging technologies can solve critical issues in organizational operations: An analysis of blockchain-driven projects in the public sector	19
Factors for collaboration amongst smart city stakeholders: A local government perspective	19
The haves and the have nots: Civic technologies and the pathways to government responsiveness	19
Digital government inclusion: Exploring strategies for inclusive government automation	18
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – Building capacities for the use of big data algorithm systems (BDAS) in early crisis detection	18
AI: Friend or foe of fairness perceptions of the tax administration? A survey experiment on citizens' procedural fairness perceptions	18
Open government data and self-efficacy: The empirical evidence of micro foundation via survey experiments	18
Toward intelligence or ignorance? Performativity and uncertainty in government tech narratives	18
State versus Technology: What drives trust in and usage of internet voting, institutional or technological trust?	18
Coping with digital transformation in frontline public services: A study of user adaptation in policing	18
A user-centred analysis of decision support requirements in legal informatics	17
Policymaking in the digital era: Exploring techno-legal assemblages and their impact on policy formulation	17
Theorizing the evolution of public data ecosystems: An empirically grounded multi-generational model and future research agenda	16
Digital transformation decoupling: The impact of willful ignorance on public sector digital transformation	16
Transforming towards inclusion-by-design: Information system design principles shaping data-driven financial inclusiveness	16
Technological frames, CIOs, and Artificial Intelligence in public administration: A socio-cognitive exploratory study in Spanish local governments	16
Breaking barriers: Evaluating accessibility in local government online platforms for individuals with disabilities	16
Bridging local and global: Convergence, divergence and dialogue in digital government research communities	16
Resolving value conflicts in public AI governance: A procedural justice framework	16
Building open government data platform ecosystems: A dynamic development approach that engages users from the start	16
Government transparency: Monitoring public policy accumulation and administrative overload	16
Orchestrating artificial intelligence for urban sustainability	15
Stakeholder influence on technical debt management in the public sector: An embedded case study	15
Exploring the complexity of cross-boundary data collaboratives based on the foundation of governmental open data: A study in Taiwan	15
Does being informed about government transparency boost trust? Exploring an overlooked mechanism	15
Examining public managers' competencies of artificial intelligence implementation in local government: A quantitative study	15
Can e-government reduce local governments' financial deficits?——Analysis based on county-level data from China	14
Voting intentions on social media and political opinion polls	14
Editorial Board	14
The governance of artificial intelligence in Canada: Findings and opportunities from a review of 84 AI governance initiatives	14
Adaptive social media communication for web-based accountability	14
Artificial Intelligence in deliberation: The AI penalty and the emergence of a new deliberative divide	14
Development and evaluation of an urban data governance reference model based on design science research	14
Identifying the crucial factors of e-government success from the perspective of Australian citizens living with disability using a public value approach	14
How the exercise of the right to information (RTI) affects trust in political institutions	13
Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework	13
Understanding value of digital service delivery by governments in Mexico	13
A privacy risk identification framework of open government data: A mixed-method study in China	13
Artificial intelligence for digital citizen participation: Design principles for a collective intelligence architecture	13
Paradoxical digital inclusion: The mixed blessing of street-level intermediaries in reducing administrative burden	13
Public service operational efficiency and blockchain – A case study of Companies House, UK	13
Diplomacy under fire: Engagement with governmental versus non-governmental messages on social media during armed conflicts	12
Social media use for work during non-work hours and work engagement: Effects of work-family conflict and public service motivation	12
Rules and responsibilities in smart city governance: Exploring the architecture of data value chain	12
Regulating generative AI: The limits of technology-neutral regulatory frameworks. Insights from Italy's intervention on ChatGPT	12
Examining the antecedents and outcomes of smart government usage: An integrated model	12
Nothing but symbolic: Chinese new authoritarianism, smart government, and the challenge of multi-level governance	12
Government-led and Internet-empowered citizen participation in China's policymaking: A case study of the Shanghai 2035 Master Plan	12